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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

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Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles Religious
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

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